Anonymous Posted on Jan 09, 2011

I have a 92 Gibson T Bird with ebony fretboard, and a new one with rosewood fretboard. my old TBird doesn't have the brilliance in the highs as the new one does... i changed all the pots yesterday, with cts pots 500K for volume and i got me a gibson original replacement pot 300K for the tone. It does sound a little better (i think) the old pots were only working from 9 to 10 if you rolled it at 8 there was no sound... (they were replaced back in 98 by a technician) and they were all 500K i did discover though that even both basses have ceramic magnets they have different capacitors, the old one has the following info: MP/203M/100V and the new one only states: 223 so what do you think? my old TBird sounds GREAT the only thing is that i want more treble without losing the massive low end it has and the unbelievable growl... Thank you in advance for your time!!!

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The most I can suggest for getting the shine back to the bass is to run an EQ before your preamp. Make sure all sliders are set to zero, then raise the higher frequencies until you get the sound you're looking for. This won't lose any growl, just accentuate the brilliance.

The best EQ to use would be a BOSS Bass Equalizer. You can use the same on your old T-Bird to accentuate the lower frequencies, and get almost the same sound.

Hope that helps!

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